Trait which allows reading from primitive atomic types with "consume" ordering.
Type returned by load_consume
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Loads a value from the atomic using a "consume" memory ordering.
This is similar to the "acquire" ordering, except that an ordering is
only guaranteed with operations that "depend on" the result of the load.
However consume loads are usually much faster than acquire loads on
architectures with a weak memory model since they don't require memory
fence instructions.
The exact definition of "depend on" is a bit vague, but it works as you
would expect in practice since a lot of software, especially the Linux
kernel, rely on this behavior.
This is currently only implemented on ARM and AArch64, where a fence
can be avoided. On other architectures this will fall back to a simple
load(Ordering::Acquire)
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